Index
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Thursday, 113. 198; Tuesday, 199, 297-8, 352-3 ; Whitsuntide, 198-201, 370 ; Whit Tuesday, 199 ; year worshipped, Nigeria, 405
Dead, host of, see Ghosts
Dead, wanderings of, Kiwai, 129
Deafness : cures for, Jersey 249, 251
Deasal, see Right hand
Death : in tale, Waterford, 233
Death and funeral customs and beliefs : {see also Ghosts ; Oniens ; Reincarnation beliefs ; Transmigration beliefs) ; burial customs, Athens, 264, ISIelos, 265 ; coffin draped. Highlands, 347 ; coins in cofhn, gipsies, 368 ; communing with dead, Aberdeensh., 346-7 ; dead carried off by reindeer, Lapps, 388 ; dead carry off children, Mayo, 327-8 ; drowned carried round house, Aberdeensh., 348 ; feast to dead, 286. Baganda, 312-3, Dinkas, 309, White Ruthenians, 95 ; funeral feasts, gipsies, 368 ; future life, beliefs about, Africa, 312, Assam, 477, New Guinea, 129 ; gifts to dead, Aber- deensh., 346 ; key in coffin, Ireland, 381-2; last -buried drives death cart, Bretagne, 388; Piedmont, 279; procession of dead. Piedmont, 278-9 ; All Souls' Eve, Swiss, 273 ; St. Mark's Eve custom, Yorks, 376; souling, 285-99 {map) ; spirits warmed by bonfires, Shans, 79 ; sugared water for dying, Kanara, 196; unlucky to return on way to funeral, Kent, 367 ; viaticum, Cambs, 365 ; wine over coffin, gipsies, 368
Death Coach, The, by M. Peacock, 388-9
Deccan : {see also Chitpavans ; Kunbis ; Mahars ; Mahrattas ; Ramoshis) ; Holi, 62 ; horse worshipped, 196
December, see Christmas Day ; "Christmas Eve ; Christmastide ; New Year's Eve ; St. Thomas' Day
Decies wthout Drum : tales, 109- 121
Deer : {see also Barking deer ; Bush deer ; Reindeer); festival,
Siberia, 47 ; in tales, Assam, 487
Deesidc : charm, 347; saying, 351
Deities : Siberia, 48, 52-3
Deluge tales, 144
Demons and evil spirits : {see also Devil); as butterllics, 203; cause diseases, Siberia, 50 ; charms against, Nigeria, 405 ; haunt baobab-trcc, Pemba, 395 ; hook- swinging to appease, India, 175-6; iron inimical to, Ceylon. 193-4; Mickleton Hooter, Glos., 375 ; Pemba, 395 ; in rocks, trees, and pools, Assam, 477 ; sacrifices to, Assam, 477; Siberia, 49-51 ; sugar has power over,. India, 196; zombi, W. Indies, 3701
Denmark, see Greenland ; Schles- wig
Despre Cimilituri. by G. Pascu, reviewed, 134-7
Devangas : lire-walking, 66
Devil : causes thunder. Piedmont, 278 ; as horse, Quebec, 252 ; marks rocks, Salop, 372 ; in tales, Glos., 374-5, Ireland, 230-1, 280, Piedmont, 278, Quebec, 251-2
Devil's Arrows (W. Riding), 377
Devil's Rocks, The, near Down- ton Castle, Ludlow, Shropshire, by E. M. Leather, 372
Devon : {see also Sandford) ; charm, 246; ist butterfly killed, 204
Diarmaid and Grainne : parallel to Tristan and Isolt, 261-2
Dinkas: ancestral spirits, 309-1 r
Diseases : {see also under names) ; cattle, prevented by goat, Jer- sey, 247 ; caused by spirits, .\frica, 310, 312-4, 321-2, Si- beria, 50 ; charms against, see Charms; cured by spirits, Africa, 310, 312-4 ; goddess of, India,
154
Distaff : Italy, 2
Divination : at Midsummer rites, 76 ; by animals. White Ruth- enians, 96 ; by candles. White Ruthenians, 95 ; by candle wax. White Ruthenians, 96 ; by Christmas cake, Yorks, 377 ; by dreams, India, 398-400, Jer- sey, 247, White Ruthenians, 96;
